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The Bank of Japan will aim to double the monetary base over two years through the aggressive purchase of long-term bonds, in a dramatic shift aimed at ridding Japan of the deflation that has dogged the country for almost two decades.

On the same day Cyprus’s parliament rejected a European Union bailout involving a tax on deposits, political leaders in the region reached a deal bringing the euro zone one step closer to a banking union.

Investors took fright at the prospect of prolonged political instability in Italy following a resounding electoral rebuff to austerity measures, with a spike in bond yields and sharp sell-off in equities.

China is to rein in its fast-growing shadow banking system by requiring banks to provide extensive disclosures about the off-balance sheet investment products that they sell to customers, according to people briefed on the new rules.

The euro zone is not considering a debt restructuring for Cyprus, the EU's top economic official was quoted on Friday as saying, as the heavily indebted island struggles to negotiate an international aid deal.

UBS was fined £29.7 million ($47.6 million) by the U.K. and told by the Swiss that it may have to increase capital levels for operational risks as regulators levied penalties after Kweku Adoboli’s $2.3 billion trading loss.

General Motors and alliance partner PSA Peugeot Citroen have halted talks on a deeper tie-up amid misgivings about the French carmaker's worsening finances and government-backed bailout, people familiar with the matter said.

BP PLC have agreed to sell its 50% stake in the lucrative but problematic Russian oil venture TNK-BP to OAO Rosneft, a deal that would dramatically alter the British energy giant's presence in a country that is the world's largest energy producer.

Bad loans at Spanish banks rose to a record high in August, driven by an increasing number of recession-hit Spaniards defaulting on their debt payments. Loans that fell into arrears in August increased by 5.3 billion euros ($7 billion) from July, reaching 178 billion euros, Bank of Spain data showed on Thursday.

Representatives of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell are appearing in a Dutch civil court to face accusations of polluting Nigerian villages. The case is being brought by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch branch of campaigners Friends of the Earth.

President Francois Hollande's government will likely ease the impact of tax hikes on small business in the 2013 budget after a chorus of complaints by French entrepreneurs, Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said on Thursday.

Workers occupied the site of two idle ArcelorMittal steel furnaces in northeastern France on Monday as management and unions met in Paris to decide the fate of a plant that has become a symbol of the country's industrial decline.

More people in Asia became millionaires last year as the region’s economic growth and entrepreneurship helped generate affluence. The number of individuals in Asia-Pacific with investable assets of $1 million to $5 million climbed 1.9 percent to 3.08 million in 2011. Their total wealth increased 1.5 percent.

Germany's Constitutional Court gave a green light on Wednesday for the country to ratify the euro zone's new bailout fund and budget pact, but insisted the German parliament have veto powers over any future increases in the size of the fund.

The UK government borrowed more than expected in July, traditionally a good month for tax receipts. Net borrowing was £600m in July, an increase of £3.4bn on the same month in 2011 when it repaid £2.8bn.

Royal Dutch Shell plans to spend at least $1 billion a year exploiting China's potentially vast resources of shale gas, as part of an aggressive strategy to expand in the world's biggest energy market.

Rio Tinto have said that commodity markets are likely to remain volatile in the near term after reporting a 22% drop in first-half earnings, but the company stuck by its US$16 billion spending program for this year even as rival miners cut or postponed investments.

Kevin Allen recently wrote in the Harvard Business Review of the significance of language influencing a companies culture, from top to bottom. Behaviour and language are intrinsically linked, meaning that small words often cast large reflections of an organisation.

Lockheed Martin Corp posted better-than-expected second-quarter net profit and raised its full-year forecast, but said it still faces challenges ahead with $500 billion in additional U.S. defense spending cuts due to start next year.

French PM Jean-Marc Ayrault has called on the French people to rally behind the government to tackle a "crushing" and "unprecedented" debt crisis. He confirmed those earning more than 1m euros (£800,000) would be taxed at 75%.He is outlining the new Socialist government's plans in a keynote speech to parliament for the next five years.

Opel, the European arm of General Motors Co (GM.N), will keep up its product investments and will return to its mass-market roots. Opel CEO Karl-Friedrich Stracke said, "We will make a significant investment in Opel's product portfolio."

China on Monday offered $43 billion to the IMF's crisis-fighting reserves, rounding off a global push to nearly double the Fund's war chest to $456 billion to help protect countries from fallout from the euro zone debt crisis.

A controversial line from the Irish playwright and co-founder of LSE, and one easily misunderstood. Dominic Lawson recently used Shaw’s words, in the Independent, to explain the minds of infamous business leaders like ex CEO of RBS Sir Fred Goodwin. There is a strong belief that to be a successful leader one must acquire a ruthless streak, or rather a high degree of ‘unreasonableness’, yet we are not always sure exactly what that means.

Over the last month many people in the business world have paused to reflected on the passing away of a truly brilliant mind. Steve Jobs, Co – Founder of Apple, died aged 56 after suffering from pancreatic cancer, leaving behind a monumental legacy. The social media networks poured with eulogies all composed on the very products Jobs worked so hard to create.